A01=David G. Moore
american indians
anthropology
archaeology
archeology
artifacts
Author_David G. Moore
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ceramics
ceremonial complex
climate
Early Archaic
Eastern United States
environment
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excavations
farming
fauna
fishing
geology
habitats
hunting
Indigenous societies
material culture
Middle Archaic
Middle Woodland
migration
mounds
native american artifacts
native american history
native american pottery
native american studies
native americans
Paleoindians
photographs
plants
Pleistocene
pottery
projectile points
public archaeology
settlement
shell middens
shellfish
south
southeastern archaeology
subsistence
violence
warfare
water transportation
Woodland period
Product details
- ISBN 9780817311636
- Weight: 630g
- Dimensions: 169 x 221mm
- Publication Date: 06 Nov 2002
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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By the 18th century, the modern Catawba Indians were living along the river and throughout the valley that bears their name near the present North Carolina-South Carolina border, but little was known of their history and origins. With this elegant study, David Moore proposes a model that bridges the archaeological record of the protohistoric Catawba Valley with written accounts of the Catawba Indians from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, thus providing an ethnogenesis theory for these Native Americans. Because the Catawba Confederacy had a long tradition of pottery making, dating ceramics and using them for temporal control was central to establishing a regional cultural chronology. Moore accomplishes this with a careful, thorough review and analysis of disparate data from the whole valley. His archaeological discoveries support documentary evidence of 16th-century Spaniards in the region interacting with the resident Indians. By tracking the Spanish routes through the Catawba River valley and comparing their reported interactions with the native population with known archaeological sites and artifacts, he provides a firm chronological and spatial framework for Catawba Indian prehistory. With excellent artifact photographs and data-rich appendixes, this book is a model study that induces us to contemplate a Catawba genesis and homeland more significant than traditionally supposed. It will appeal to professional archaeologists concerned with many topics - Mississippian, Lamer, early historic Indians, de Soto, Pardo, and chiefdom studies - as well as to the broader public interested in the archaeology of the Carolinas.
David G. Moore is Assistant Professor of Archaeology at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina.
